Episode 6

Lizzie Harper is a freelance natural history and botanical illustrator with a keen love of nature. Her favourite subjects are grasses, beetles, and wild flowers. Her scientific training as a zoologist helps complement her illustrations.

She works in watercolour, pencil, and pen. With over 25 years’ experience as a free-lance illustrator, she has a broad range of clients.

Publishers, environmental charities, postage stamp designers, packaging firms, design companies, and private individuals have all commissioned her illustrations. She’s illustrated The Hedgerow Handbook, The Garden Forager, and Foraging with Kids by Adele Nozedar. Her work is in the HarperCollins Flower Guide by Streeter, and The Bumper Book of Nature by Stephen Moss. Her illustrations appear in National geographic and BBC Countryfile Magazine.

Lizzie loves nothing more than spending a day immersed in the beautiful landscape round her home in Wales; where she investigates slugs and mosses, and does sketchbook studies of the wild flowers she finds. She works from her garden studio in Hay on Wye where she lives very happily with a long-suffering husband and two lively children.

Find Lizzie here:

https://lizzieharper.co.uk/

Referenced in this episode:

Collins Wild Flower Guide by David Streeter (Illustrated by Lizzie)

New flora of the British Isles by Clive Stace

Drawings of British plants by Stella Ross-Craig

Understanding the Flowering Plants: A Practical Guide for Botanical Illustrators by Anne Bebbington

Large piece of turf by Albrecht Dürer

Young Hare by Albrecht Dürer

The Wild Flowers of the British Isles by David Streeter and Ian Garrard

Illuminated manuscripts

Franz Bauer

Sketch of a Blue Swimmer crab by Ferdinand Bauer

Roses (1817-1821) and Lillies (1802-1815) by Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Metamorphosis of the insects of Suriname by Maria Sibylla Merian

Clutius Botanical Watercolours collected by Theodorus Clutius

Fruit portraits by William Hooker

Ernst Haeckel

Fungus and spider illustrations by Beatrix Potter

Margaret Mee

A Life on our Planet: My Witness Statement and Vision for the Future by David Attenborough and illustrated by Lizzie Harper

The Birds of America by John James Audubon

Winsor and Newton Series 7, #1 brush

Dr. Ph. Martin's Hydrus Watercolour Paints

Fluid 100 Watercolor Hot Press paper

Stonehenge Aqua paper

Survivors by Richard Fortey

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen

Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead

Charles Dickens

Barchester Chronicles by Anthony Trollope

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Home by Marilynne Robinson

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

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